Otto Weidinger

Otto Weidinger (27 May 1914-10 January 1990) was a Waffen-SS Lieutenant-Colonel (Obersturmbannfuhrer) during World War II.

Biography
Otto Weidinger was born on 27 May 1914 in Wurzburg, Bavaria, German Empire, and he joined the Waffen-SS in April 1934. At the start of the war, he was an obersturmfuhrer (Lieutenant) in the SS, and he served in the invasion of Poland before leading an anti-tank company in Operation Barbarossa. In 1944, he led a regiment of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in Operation Overlord in northern France against the Allied Powers, and he led 10,000 German troops in breaking out of the Falaise Gap in August 1944. At the end of the war, his regiment helped in evacuating Germans from Prague in occupied Czechoslovakia, and he was imprisoned from 1945 to 1951 for war crimes. He died in 1990 at the age of 76.